Alabama Public Television will broadcast 16 additional regular-season and AHSAA state playoff football games in 2025 as well as two postseason all-star games, the network and the AHSAA TV Network announced on Friday.

“We are excited to bring more high school football to the state with regular season and playoff games,” said APT executive director Wayne Reid. “APT’s coverage of the championships have been received with great enthusiasm. We’re excited to highlight more student-athletes and the excitement of the regular season and playoffs that happen across the state every week starting in August.”

APT has broadcast the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Super 7 State Football Championships over its statewide network for the past two seasons.

“This helped the AHSAA reach its goal of providing live coverage to the entire state,” AHSAA executive director Heath Harmon said. “We are grateful for our relationship with Alabama Public Television and Broadway Productions.”

AHSAA TV executive producer Vince Earley of Broadway Productions/WOTM-TV said his company is proud to be part of the expanded coverage. “Beginning with the 2025 season, the Kickoff Classic, and the AHSAA/WOTM 10 Game of the Week contests and four playoff games will be simulcast on Alabama Public TV and WOTM-TV,” said Earley. “We are excited to be able to bring these events to virtually every household in the state via the reach of APT. This will allow us to showcase schools from every corner of the state.”

The expanded coverage will include 16 additional regular-season and state playoff games leading up to the finals as well as the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic and the AHSAA North-South All-Star Classic football games played in December after completion of the Super 7 championships.

The AHSAA Game of the Week production will also include a pre-game program to be televised live at 5 p.m. each week over APT and re-shown at 6 p.m. over the AHSAA TV/WOTM-TV leading to the kickoff each week.

The expanded coverage will begin with the AHSAA Kickoff Classic season-opening games set for August 21-22. Teams are still being finalized. APT will carry the regular-season AHSAA TV Network Game of the Week each Thursday. When the playoffs begin, APT will also carry the AHSAA TV Network Playoff Game of the Week each Friday night – culminating with the football broadcasts with the 2025 Super 7 State Championships to be held at Birmingham’s Protective Stadium Dec. 3-5.

All the games will continue to be live video streamed over the NFHS Network as well.

Earley also announced that Mickey Shadrix, who has worked in Alabama’s television broadcast industry for more than 25 years, is joining Broadway Communications, the parent company of WOTM TV and AHSAA TV.

Here is the 2025 APT/AHSAA TV football telecast schedule:

AHSAA Kickoff Classic: Aug. 21-22

AHSAA TV Network Games of the Week: Aug. 28; Sept. 4, 11, 19, 25; Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

AHSAA Playoff Games of the Week: Nov. 7, 14, 21, 20

AHSAA Super 7 State Championships: Dec. 3, 4, 5

AHSAA North-South All-Star Classic: Friday, Dec. 12

Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic: Saturday, Dec. 13